<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS WOMEN & THE SILENT SCREEN November 2-4, 2001 Department of Film & Digital Media University of California-Santa Cruz http://artstream.ucsc.edu/womensilentscreen This conference will bring together for the first time scholars working on women's contributions to the early film industry as directors, screenwriters, stars, columnists, fans, social reformers, and theorists. Our purpose is to take stock of this emerging field; to share research, approaches, and resources; and to plan together the directions our work might take over the next few years. We hope that scholarship produced at this event will transform not only who is included in histories of the medium, but how that history is written. We therefore encourage broad and imaginative conceptions in such areas as authorship, women's labor, stardom, international cinema, and film history itself. To accompany the conference, we are also planning a film series that will showcase the contributions of early women directors, screenwriters, and stars. We hope to include other innovative materials in an on-site exhibit. Possible paper and panel topics may include: Reformers, Activists and Educators; Race and Ethnicity in Early Stardom; Theories of Female Authorship; Lost Films, Lost Histories; The Culture of Early Hollywood; International Silent Stars; Women, Modernism, and Film Theory; Targeting Women in Exhibition and Reception; The Female Body in Motion: Flappers, Comedians and Serial Queens; Marriage and Domesticity in Early Star Discourse; Memoirs, Biography and Autobiography; Women Writing on Early Cinema; and Women's Labor and Production in the Early Studio System. Possible workshop topics may include: Working with Private Collectors and Collections; Film Restoration and Preservation; Reconsidering Authorship; and any other topics that would be useful to scholars working in the field. Proposals may be for individual papers, for organized panels of 3-4 participants, or for workshops. Proposals for papers or workshops should be 350-400 words. Please accompany them with a short biographical statement. Submit proposals by e-mail, fax, or conventional mail before APRIL 30th, 2001: EMAIL: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] FAX: +1 831 459 3535 (Attention: Shelley Stamp & Amelie Hastie) MAIL: Shelley Stamp & Amelie Hastie Department of Film & Digital Media Porter Faculty Services University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu